Hey do you see performance benefits for running the ledger in ram? It’s an interesting idea and I’ve thought about doing it for our processing server but wanted to ask around a bit first. We have an 8 core with 16gb Ram

I thought that SSD speed was enough for Ledger but when Sunday spam came my node fall back really hard and couldn't catch up. I saw huge read / writes on disk and high network traffic (sadly can't do anything about that) so I decided to upgrade my service and put Ledger in RAM (I thought that at least I will eliminate disk bottleneck). After that everything went fine and it sync to latest blocks.

However that upgrade came with another change - from 1vCore to 2vCores so I can't exclude that factor. I didn't see high CPU usage at that time so I ignored it.

It all could be "placebo effect" also - I upgraded service but in the same time network calm down so node started to catching up naturally anyway.

Don't forget about my bandwidth which is 100 Mbps and could cause the problem in some way.

Same stats now as my node has since it's last upgrade. Unfortunately this upgrade has already been in place, during the last high-tps-"test", but it got out of sync also. So maybe using a ram disk isn't an bad idea.

Could you advise how you created the ram disk and how it's copied back to hdd in case of server reboot? Would be very nice. Thanks a lot!

Hi u/patricklim92 , it seems since you brought the conversation here and many of the users of /r/nanocurrency/ are reluctant to give you a response, I rather they give me a response as to my accusations.

When You start Your wallet and don't unlock it with password it says it's locked. Same if You didn't set any password. Anyway, if You got your seed and send nanos to your wallet address - You are fine no matter what :)